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" I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential. "

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" There's a film I did years ago, 'Love Serenade,' that I still really love. It's such an oddball sense of humor. It was a really special film for me when I did it. "

" I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother. "

" Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people. "

" I ask myself, 'What is the value of acting and the attention that actors get? And yet there are so many people in the world doing incredible things for mankind, and they don't get much attention.' I do question about that, but I don't think I would've been a great doctor. I think I would've been a good surgeon. That fascinated me. "

" I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think. "

" Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking. "

" I love buildings that aren't purpose-built. "

" I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television. "

" Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play. "

" I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason. "

" The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected. "

" It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them. "

" As actors, we are accustomed to moving around, and it's always great to live and work in a city - you feel like you are truly living a life there. "

" I think most big stars do have just a certain amount of mystery; you don't know everything. "

" There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world. "

" I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never went back to university. "

" There are so many things from movies that are remembered, that are just looks on people's faces or incredible vistas or beautiful pictures. That is a very important part of cinema. "

" Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read. "

" I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows. "

" Every director is completely different. "

" I just feel like TV takes more risks than film. Film has gotten very safe: it's very compartmentalized about what type of things will be successful. And whereas in TV, since all these new platforms opened, they're saying to writers, go out there, write the most different show that you can write. Write something that's really original and different. "

" It's good to see a man who isn't afraid to live out his masculinity. "

" I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women. "

" Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. "

" The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people. "

" Acting is bluffing, pretending to be something. "

" In everything I do, I like to set the idea for girls that they can do anything. I was really moved by Hillary Clinton's speech when she lost the election - she didn't want young girls to feel like it wasn't possible and wanted them to know a female president will eventually happen. That's important. "

" I love the Russians for their verve, their melancholia, their vivacity, their unpredictability, and their humour. "

Unpredictability

" It's a little daunting coming on to work with actors that you respect so much. "

" I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not. "